Family and Friends,
Hey everyone! This week was great, and it all started with a super awesome meeting we had at the mission home with the other leaders and President, I learned so much and left with a much bigger desire to work my hardest, living up to my potential, and to help other missionaries accomplish the same. In my mission we have some amazing leaders and I have so much to learn from them.
We´ve been kind of slow on finding new people these last couple of weeks, and our investigator pool not super big, but we´ve been talking about how we can do better this week so I´m excited to get to work :) sometimes I get a bit overwhelmed thinking about how many people are here that we need to stop and help.
I can´t remember how much I´ve told you of some of our investigators, so I´ll explain a bit. Andrea is one of the most promising, is a 21 year old girl, she´s a member of the family that was baptized just a month ago. She just doesn´t want to go super fast and make the big decision to be baptized, but we have a baptismal date with her for the 6th of December and she´s progressing. She sings super well, and her sister Diana (who is baptized, and reminds me a lot of Lauren for some reason). They´re an awesome family, I love them so much. They´re always full of jokes and stories.
Another investigator we have is Paloma, who is from Guinea Equitorial, and is pregnant (with only like 5 weeks or something). She´s really cool, but basically doesn´t move. She took the doctors advice a little too literally of being on rest in these few months. She doesn´t even leave the house hardly haha. BUT, she did come to the branch´s talent show on Saturday miraculously and loved it! even started dancing a little bit afterwards. We also have a date with her but we´re going little by little.
That talent show was super fun, I had a blast. I participated in singing a song with a member and the other elders, then us elderes did the Haka (those Polynesian chants they do, like in Forever Strong?), then we also did the Cups song with those 2 sisters--Diana and Andrea. Those hours of practicing with Cady and Porter really paid off haha. When they found out my companion and I could do it they asked us to do it with them. We didn´t sing, but just did the cup part. I´m pretty sure all of the members have the videos of all of them on YouTube/Facebook, they loved the activity so much. I love ward/branch activities, they are so great. I think it´s really important for investigators to see that we´re normal people, and that we have good clean fun. One girl said she had no idea she´d have such a fun night without alcohol and clubs and things like that.
Ok the relief society sisters´ talent (there were 5 of them) was a dance to Elvis´s song that goes like ´Ain't nothin but a hound dog´, and it was HILARIOUS! hahaha there was one sister, she´s like in her later 40´s, that went all out--whipping her hair and everything. I have a video of it, and can not wait to show it to you guys.
Besides that, the mission life and work is going great, I love it. I want you all to continue to pray and look for missionary opportunities. And also, family, to get a copy of Preach My Gospel and have it at home :)
Love you all so much!
Elder Franson
Elder Wilson and me again!
No comments:
Post a Comment